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Reading & Northern's entrepreneurial owner has built castoff Pennsylvania lines into 325-mile regional railroad powerhouse ...
Reading & Northern Railroad will operate a special steam excursion to Jim Thorpe from its Penobscot station in Mountain Top ...
Reading & Northern T-1 4-8-4 No. 2102 will power a Sept. 13, 2025, steam excursion through Lehigh Gorge sponsored by the ...
Like every other railroad in northeastern Pennsylvania, Reading & Northern showed a decline in frac sand carloadings related to the steep decrease in Marcellus Shale drilling activity. Although ...
Vena was the keynote speaker Monday at the annual conference of the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association. Vena did say that pursuant to tariffs, the United States needs to have ...
The National Park Service has edited a page on its website that describes the Underground Railroad to reduce the emphasis on Harriet Tubman, instead highlighting “Black/White cooperation.” ...
By Sara Ruberg A National Park Service web page about the Underground Railroad appeared to have been restored on Monday to prominently show the abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman, after it had ...
Former President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt did a whistle-stop tour of Schuylkill County towns in October 1914. After arriving in Tamaqua on October 26, he journeyed to Pottsville, where he ...
The Trump administration has removed a picture of Harriet Tubman from the National Park Service page on the Underground Railroad, as first reported by The Washington Post. It also changed the ...
arguing against the railroad via the Reading and Columbia, on the ground that it passes over ranges of mountains and broken and rough country, making sharp curves and grades 90 feet to the mile ...